Job Title: Staff Engineer
Member of : Engineering Group
Location: India (Remote)
About Us :
Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy
Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing infrastructure into a full-featured private cloud. Enterprise IT teams can manage VMs and containers with familiar GUI tools and automated APIs in a private, secure environment.
Enterprises are selecting Platform9's Private Cloud Director to migrate away from legacy virtualization platforms because it meets all of the following enterprise requirements:
- Familiar VM management experience
- Critical enterprise virtualization features: HA, DRR, networking, scale, reliability
- Compatibility with all existing hardware environments, including 3rd-party storage
- Automated migration tooling that lowers cost barrier by 10x
Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency
Requirements
- You can work as part of a team, and treat others with respect and kindness.
- You take pride in your craft, and hold yourself and others to high standards.
- You have 8+ years of experience working in a team and have led design and development tasks for your project.
- You have experience grooming and mentoring younger engineers in the team.
- You are a self-starter and can work fairly independently on your projects.
- You are good at spoken and written communication – this includes design documentation, APIs, comments and everything else that goes with building maintainable software
- You’re passionate about the exciting parts of the job, but recognize that not all of the necessary work will be fun.
- You’re willing to learn various new technologies. The “cloud native” field of software is rapidly evolving: you’ll need to stay aware of it and quickly learn new technologies whenever necessary or relevant. You are good at algorithms and data structures
Benefits and Perks:
Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognize their whole person. As a budding start-up, we have a small, energetic workforce, and we have curated personalized employee perks that are employee-friendly. The good news is that Platform9's benefits and perks program has a significant impact on employee retention, motivation, and company culture—but not just for men, by empowering women to take care of their physical and emotional well-being, we can guarantee their continued participation in the workforce.
Please note, benefits change by country.
- Competitive Compensation and Equity
- Medical Healthcare for you and your family
- Generous Time Off Programs
- Hybrid Work Model
- Wellness Benefits
- Professional Development/Global certifications
- Reward and Recognition Programs
- Team Building Activities
- Hackathon
- Company-Wide Programs
Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employees' requirements and personal situations now and for the future.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience leading design and development for projects
- Experience grooming and mentoring junior engineers
- Ability to work as part of a team and treat others with respect and kindness
- Self-starter capable of working independently on projects
- Strong spoken and written communication, including design documentation and APIs
- Willingness to learn new/cloud-native technologies quickly
- Proficiency with algorithms and data structures
- Takes pride in craft and holds self and others to high standards
What We Do
Platform9 is the open distributed cloud company, offering the power of the public cloud on infrastructure of customers’ choice—powered by Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Public clouds are walled gardens, and DIY is difficult and time-consuming. Platform9 offers a third option—an open and faster option—enabling a better way to go cloud-native. Platform9’s service powers 40K+ nodes across private, public and edge clouds. Innovative enterprises like Juniper, Kingfisher Plc, Mavenir, Redfin and Cloudera achieve 4x faster time-to-market, up to 90% reduction in operational costs, and 99.9% uptime. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company, backed by leading investors.
